Charlotte Pegram reviews Replay at the Pleasance, Edinburgh We meet ‘W’ just after she’s been hit with a bad case of food poisoning. She’s a policewoman and the sickness overwhelms her while she’s mid-shift. It’s unfortunate that she’s been struck down with illness just now as she’s about […]

Charlotte Pegram reviews Joseph Morpurgo at the Pleasance, Edinburgh I have only ever seen Morpurgo in Austentatious– the improvised Jane Austen play, in which you can visibly see the pleasure he takes in throwing himself into the great unknown of improvisation. It is surprising, then, that his solo […]

Charlotte Pegram reviews The B*easts at the Underbelly, Edinburgh It’s the sign of an excellent play when it really irks you, and there is something about The B*easts which really riled me. The B*easts is narrated by a psycho-therapist who has been dealing with a mother, Karen, whose […]

Oli Hague reviews Richard Herring at the Pleasance, Edinburgh Although arguably not quite as cerebral as many of his previous 12 one-man fringe shows, Herring demonstrates why he has had such consistent success over the last 30 years at the festival with an affable performance on the virtues […]

Charles Blake reviews Hardeep Singh Kohli at Assembly, Edinburgh When thinking about political comedy in 2017, it’s hard to escape Donald Trump and the non-stop circus that is US politics. So I was slightly apprehensive that Hardeep Singh Kohli’s “Alternative, Fact” was going to be a series […]

Charlotte Pegram reviews Sam Simmons at Assembly, Edinburgh Winner of the 2015 Edinburgh Fosters Comedy Award, Sam Simmons has had his talents praised to the extent that last year’s critics told him he could read out the phone book and he would still be funny. Simmons took them […]

Nick Slack reviews Phil Wang: Kinabalu at Pleasance, Edinburgh For any who have seen Phil Wang in the past, you would be forgiven for expecting his latest show to be an hour filled with content aimed at a more juvenile sense of humour. In the case of Kinabalu, […]

Charlotte Pegram reviews Police Cops in Space at the Pleasance, Edinburgh. Police Cops in Space is the sequel to last year’s sell-out success, Police Cops. Whereas last year’s offering was a seriously silly pastiche of 70s cop shows, this year we have the same concept – the mission […]

Charlotte Pegram reviews Kat Bond: Loo Roll at the Pleasance, Edinburgh. In this show Kat plays Pat, a woman abandoned by her family and left in a rubbish bin. Pat is undeniably an unusual comedy character, she is desperate to be loved and yet lacks the social skills […]

Charlotte Pegram reviews Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at Summerhall, Edinburgh We’re often told that we take our freedom of speech for granted, but Sam Steiner takes this idea to an extreme in his debut play Lemons. Set in a parallel world to our own, we see a […]